Palaeobethylus politus Brues 1933 (cuckoo wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Chrysididae

Full reference: C. T. Brues. 1933. The Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Baltic Amber. Bernstein-Forschungen 3:4-178

Belongs to Palaeobethylus according to K. V. Martynova et al. 2019

See also Brues 1933, Martynova and Perkovsky 2017, Perkovsky and Rasnitsyn 2013, Sorg 1988 and Spahr 1987

Sister taxa: Palaeobethylus brevicollis, Palaeobethylus longicollis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Ukraine (2)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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